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Q940771 Robert Glenn Hubbard (born September 4, 1958) is an American economist and academic. He is currently the Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he is also Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics. On September 13, 2018 he announced that he would not seek another term in h... |
Q7863900 uBid.com is an online auction style and fixed-price shopping website that offers both goods sold directly by the company and items sold by pre-approved third party uBid-certified merchants. The site specializes in excess new, refurbished and overstock consumer electronics such as computers, electronics, home g... |
Q17090886 Van Con, Incorporated (often shortened to Van Con) is a manufacturer of bodies for school buses. Based in Middlesex, New Jersey, the company sells buses primarily in New York and the northeastern United States. The company specializes in bodies for cutaway van chassis. Van Con Inc. was founded by Paul And... |
Q827016 Modern pentathlon is a sports contest created especially for the Summer Olympic Games by the founder of the modern Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and was first contested in 1912. Coubertin was inspired by the pentathlon event in Ancient Olympic Games, which was modeled after the skills of the ideal soldier a... |
Q368674 License to Wed is a 2007 American romantic comedy film starring Robin Williams, Mandy Moore and John Krasinski, and directed by Ken Kwapis. The film was released in theaters on July 3, 2007. |
Q3954251 Segeric was, according to Jordanes, the king who immediately followed Alaric I as ruler of the Visigoths. He ruled only a short time and then was killed by his soldiers. |
Q8037121 Worst Best Friends is an Australian children's television series first screened on Network Ten in 2002. The series is based on the children's books by Max Dann: Adventures with My Worst Best Friend, Going Bananas and Dusting in Love. |
Q1945049 Monomoy Island National Wildlife Refuge is a federal wildlife refuge located on Monomoy Island in Massachusetts.It was taken over by the US government just before World War II. The island was home to the Monomoy Island Gunnery Range until 1951 when the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge was established. Its goa... |
Q2811316 Events from the year 1921 in the United States. |
Q7895590 The College of Communication & Information is the communications, information, and media unit at the University of Kentucky. The college offers the following undergraduate majors: Communication, Information Communication Technology, Integrated Strategic Communication, Journalism, and Media Arts and Studies. Gr... |
Q4875753 The Beach Rotana is a large hotel in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.The hotel is a member of Leading Hotels of the World and part of Rotana Hotels. It is a hotel complex made up of two wings in Abu Dhabi’s Tourist Club Area. The Beach Wing which stands with seven floors includes 286 rooms and suites whilst th... |
Q6531105 Leslie Rowson (1903-1977) was a British cinematographer. Rowson collaborated on several films with the director Michael Powell. |
Q5171161 Cornelia Frölich (born 23 May 1964 in Zurich) is a Swiss sport shooter. At age forty, Frolich made her official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she placed seventh in the 10 m air pistol, and thirty-fourth in the 25 m pistol, accumulating scores of 481.5 and 381 points, respectively.Four yea... |
Q5839696 Mazar-e Shah Ebrahim (Persian: مزارشاه ابراهيم, also Romanized as Mazār-e Shāh Ebrāhīm and Mazār-e Shāhebrāhīm) is a village in Derakhtengan Rural District, in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q37519689 Carlstedt is a surname that may refer to:Birger Carlstedt (1907–1975), Finnish painterLily Carlstedt (1926–2002), Danish javelin thrower |
Q19892861 Kitchen Super Star (season 4) is a 2015-2015 Tamil competitive cooking show which aired on Vijay TV from 14 February 2015 through 11 July 2015. Suresh, Chef Dhamu and Chef Venkatesh Bhat were the judges. |
Q28465218 Ngô Đức Thắng (born 4 May 1985) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as either a midfielder or defenderfor Quảng Nam in the V.League 1. |
Q23900871 Agnes McDonald (2 September 1829 – 28 November 1906) was an early European settler to New Zealand, working as a nurse, postmistress and teacher. Living in Maori dominant regions she and her husband served as an important link between Maori and European settler communities. |
Q1012169 Mount Vernon is a city in Grant County, Oregon, United States. Its post office was established in 1877 and named after a black stallion that belonged to settler David W. Jenkins. The stallion's stable, a small stone building, is still standing in a field on the north side of U.S. Highway 26 about 2.2 miles (3.... |
Q6548540 Lily B. McBeth (August 20, 1934 – September 24, 2014) was an American transgender teacher from Tuckerton, New Jersey. She was born William B. McBeth and as part of her transition underwent sex reassignment surgery in 2005. Her actions were hailed as a model of tolerance and acceptance of transgender Americans.... |
Q7249256 Project Puffin is an effort initiated by Dr. Stephen W. Kress of the National Audubon Society to learn how to restore puffins to historic nesting islands in the Gulf of Maine. It was started in 1973 when puffins were nesting in only two locations in Maine — Matinicus Rock and Machias Seal Island. The project... |
Q2408336 HSC Dublin Swift is a high-speed catamaran built in 2001 by Austal Ltd. of Henderson, Western Australia as a Maritime Prepositioning ship. The vessel was chartered by the United States Marine Corps Military Sealift Command (MSC), until January 2018 as Westpac Express.Irish Continental Group bought the ship in ... |
Q2823297 α-Parinaric acid is a conjugated polyunsaturated fatty acid. Discovered by Tsujimoto and Koyanagi in 1933, it contains 18 carbon atoms and 4 conjugated double bonds. The repeating single bond-double bond structure of α-parinaric acid distinguishes it structurally and chemically from the usual "methylene-interr... |
Q7608314 Stephanie Klein is a popular blogger and the author of Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir and Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp.Klein first gained popularity through her blog, Greek Tragedy, which was originally created as a showcase for her advertising portfolio. In 2004, The Independent in London discovered her blog ... |
Q3868845 My Girlfriend's Girlfriend is a song from American gothic metal band Type O Negative's 1996 album October Rust, describing a polyamorous relationship. With its prominent organ and the almost lighthearted mood throughout, the song much more closely resembles 1960s psychedelic rock than the doom metal that prev... |
Q6792161 Matō Station (間藤駅, Matō-eki) is a railway station on the Watarase Keikoku Line in Nikkō, Tochigi, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operator Watarase Keikoku Railway. |
Q7070851 Nyamindi is a settlement in Kenya's Central Province. |
Q6695866 Luca Carretto (born 10 August 1984 in Rivoli) is an Italian footballer. He currently plays for RapalloBogliasco. |
Q4356505 "Unholy Confessions" is a song by Avenged Sevenfold, from their second album, Waking the Fallen.It was the first single by the band to receive mainstream exposure and was heavily rotated on MTV2's Headbangers Ball.The song was first performed live on January 21, 2004, and has remained a permanent staple of the... |
Q5436241 Farrapos (meaning Ragamuffins in English, in allusion to the Ragamuffin War) is a neighbourhood (bairro) in the city of Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. It was created by Law 6218 from November 17, 1988. |
Q5635032 HMS Zanzibar (K596) was a Colony-class frigate of the United Kingdom that served during World War II. She was ordered by the United States Navy as the Tacoma-class patrol frigate USS Prowse (PF-92) and was transferred to the Royal Navy prior to completion. |
Q4009787 Venusia lineata is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Taiwan. |
Q5389632 Erjon Vucaj (born 25 December 1990) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Kosovan club Drita.Grown up as a player at Vllaznia Shkodër, he has spent three years at Laçi, proving to be a pivotal player for this team's midfield and notably bringing the team to the qualifiers of the ... |
Q18114737 Platytes albipennella is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1896. It is found in the Punjab region of what was British India. |
Q1672969 Irma Wehgartner is a German Classical archaeologist.Irma Wehgartner studied classical archaeology, prehistory, protohistory and ancient history at Würzburg and Munich. She graduated from Würzburg University in 1980 with the work, Attisch weissgrundige Keramik. Maltechniken, Werkstätten, Formen, Verwendung (Att... |
Q24748001 Ispat Stadium is a cricket stadium located in Rourkela, Odisha. The ground is mainly used for organizing matches of football, cricket and other sports. The stadium has hosted three Ranji Trophy matches in 1972 when Odisha cricket team played against Bihar cricket team. The stadium also hosted three List A mat... |
Q25184300 Margaret Macadam was a British illustrator active in the 1920s and 1930s. Amongst her commercial works are several dust wrapper designs for London-based publishers, most important amongst which is the design for the dust wrapper for the first edition of Agatha Christie's first straight novel Giant's Bread. Fo... |
Q11141213 Hedong Subdistrict (simplified Chinese: 河东街道; traditional Chinese: 河東街道; pinyin: Hédōng Jiēdào) is a subdistrict in Qingyuan District, Ji'an, Jiangxi province, China. As of 2018, it has 8 residential communities and 11 villages under its administration. |
Q998757 Grandview is a city in Louisa County, Iowa, United States. The population was 556 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Muscatine Micropolitan Statistical Area. |
Q295999 Ferid Murad (born September 14, 1936) is an Albanian American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
Q245230 The Finding in the Temple, also called "Christ among the Doctors" or the Disputation (the usual names in art), was an episode in the early life of Jesus depicted in the chapter 2 of the Gospel of Luke. It is the only event of the later childhood of Jesus mentioned in a gospel. |
Q7170257 Iranian pop music refers to pop music originated in Iran, with songs mainly in Persian and other regional languages of the country. It is also widely referred to as Persian pop music in the Western world. |
Q4941384 Bondend is a lane within the village of Upton St Leonards in Gloucestershire, England. |
Q16012198 Harold Barratt (25 December 1918 – 1989) was an English football player and manager. |
Q7613372 Stephen C. Miller (August 26, 1943) is a former American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Carroll College—now known as Carroll University—in Waukesha, Wisconsin from 1972 to 1976, at Morningside College i... |
Q20037398 Glycerol phosphate may refer to:Glycerol 1-phosphateGlycerol 2-phosphateGlycerol 3-phosphate |
Q3461564 Sahébo is a village in central Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of M'Bahiakro, M'Bahiakro Department, Iffou Region, Lacs District.Sahébo was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished. |
Q6594735 This article lists the Presidents of the Chamber of Republics of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia. |
Q5097453 Chikkamulangi is a village in Belgaum district in the southern state of Karnataka, India. |
Q4622423 The 2011 Southeastern Conference football season began on Thursday, September 1, 2011 with Kentucky taking on Western Kentucky on ESPNU. The season concluded on January 9, 2012 as the Alabama Crimson Tide shut out LSU Tigers, 21–0 in the Allstate BCS National Championship Game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome i... |
Q3702588 Dario Di Palma (6 November 1932 - 24 October 2004) was an Italian film cinematographer.Born in Rome, Di Palma began to work in the 1950s as camera operator and assistant camera operator, often with his uncle Carlo Di Palma as cinematographer. After taking care of the cinematography of the second unit for the ... |
Q13369993 Anarmodia inflexalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Snellen in 1892. It is found in Brazil. |
Q21055332 Germana Marucelli (13 October 1905 - 23 February 1983) was an Italian fashion designer. |
Q24185150 The United Women’s Lacrosse League (UWLX) is a women's lacrosse league in the United States. It was co-founded in Boston, Massachusetts by Digit Murphy and Aronda Kirby of the Play It Forward Sports Foundation, under the ownership of United Women's Sports LLC in a strategic partnership with STX. Penn State al... |
Q16888121 Solco Walle Tromp (9, March 1909 - 17, March 1983) was a Dutch geologist and biometeorologist.Tromp was from 1947 to 1950 Professor of geology at Cairo University. He co-founded the International Society of Biometeorology and published pioneering writings on biometeorology.Tromp took a deep interest in dowsi... |
Q19799019 Filibacter is a Gram-negative strictly aerobic bacteria genus from the family of Planococcaceae. Up to now there iso only one species of this genus known (Filibacter limicola). |
Q5852443 Euthalia adonia is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae (Limenitidinae). It is found in the Indomalayan realm. |
Q11980824 Kjell Aamot (born 7 November 1950) is a Norwegian business executive who chaired the Schibsted Media Group for twenty years. Aamot is educated as economist from the BI Norwegian Business School. He has had administrative position in Verdens Gang, and served as CEO of Schibsted from 1989 to 2009. |
Q3998983 The Triple Alliance of 1788 was a military alliance between Great Britain, Prussia and the United Provinces. Great Britain saw it as necessary to maintain the balance of power, and Prussia was hoping for the territorial gains. The alliance was primarily aimed at the Russian Empire, which stood to increase its ... |
Q261990 Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Anne Koch, June 2, 1959) is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker. Her career was spawned by the New York no wave scene.Her work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music delivery, and has maintained an anti-commercial ethic, operatin... |
Q3804999 "Iz U" is a song by the rapper Nelly, released in 2003 as a single from the album Da Derrty Versions: The Reinvention. It was released in the United States but had little airplay. It also saw moderate success in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 36. The song was also used for the film, The Haunted Mansion.... |
Q1044060 Carnival Freedom is a Conquest-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line, and the final Conquest-class vessel to enter service. Built by Fincantieri at its Marghera shipyard in Venice, Italy, she was floated out on April 28, 2006, delivered to Carnival on February 28, 2007, and formally named in Veni... |
Q5554735 Gettysburg is a board wargame produced by Avalon Hill which re-enacts the American Civil War battle of Gettysburg. |
Q655678 Hōrin-ji (法輪寺, 法琳寺, 法林寺), or Mii-dera (三井寺, 御井寺) is a Buddhist temple in Mii, Ikaruga, Nara, Japan. The temple is located about a kilometer north of Hōryū-ji's Tō-in. The temple's sangō prefix is Myōken-san (妙見山).The origin of the temple is not certain, although there are two prevalent theories, namely that: 1... |
Q7255166 Pseudoneochloris is a genus of green algae in the class Ulvophyceae. |
Q17832405 Argininosuccinate synthetase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ASS1 gene.The protein encoded by this gene catalyzes the penultimate step of the arginine biosynthetic pathway. There are approximately 10 to 14 copies of this gene including the pseudogenes scattered across the human genome, among whi... |
Q7982763 Wendy Quirk (born May 29, 1959) is a former competition swimmer who represented Canada in international swimming events during the 1970s. Quirk won eleven medals in major international swimming championships, spanning the FINA World Championships, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games. |
Q1066327 Charles Thomas Vinci Jr. (February 28, 1933 – June 13, 2018) was an American weightlifter and Olympic champion.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Vinci was the United States Senior National Champion from 1954 to 1956 and from 1958 to 1961. He received silver medals in the 1955 and 1958 world championships. He won gold m... |
Q21956 Flétrange (German: Fletringen) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.Localities of the commune: Dorviller (German: Dorweiler) |
Q7646355 Surinder Kaur (born 12 July 1982 in Shahbad Markanda, Kurukshetra District, Haryana) is a member of the India women's national field hockey team. She hails from Haryana and played with the team when it won Gold at the 2004 Hockey Asia Cup. |
Q7352802 Robin Stephenson (born June 21, 1983) is a former American professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is No. 435, which she reached on February 11, 2008. Her career-high doubles ranking is 157, set on December 8, 2008.She played collegiately for the Alabama Crimson Tide, earning All-Americ... |
Q615973 The 1997–98 Copa del Rey was the 96th staging of the Copa del Rey.The competition started on 3 September 1997 and concluded on 29 April 1998 with the final, held at the Mestalla Stadium in Valencia. |
Q5416978 Everett Little Booe (September 28, 1891 – March 21, 1969) was a professional baseball player. He played in two seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily as an outfielder. He played part of 1913 for the Pittsburgh Pirates, then jumped to the Federal League in 1914. He played for two teams that season, the Ind... |
Q386830 The Girona Open was a golf tournament on the European Tour in 1991. It was held at Golf Platja de Pals in Girona, Catalonia, Spain, and was won by England's Steven Richardson. |
Q9697440 Carlota De Camargo Nascimento (Loty) (October 7, 1904 – July 2, 1974) was a Brazilian sculptor and poet.Carlota was born in Sergipe, Aracaju, Brazil. She studied in Escola Nacional de Belas Artes under the great master and director of the school Rodolfo Bernardelli (1852–1931), an innovator in the teaching of... |
Q17048876 Tears and Laughter is a compilation album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in the UK in 1980 on the CBS Records label. The title summarizes how the album is thematically organized, with the back cover labeling side one as "Tears" and side two as "Laughter".The album entered the UK album ... |
Q21428541 Lander Olaetxea Ibaibarriaga (born 12 April 1993) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Gernika Club as an attacking midfielder. |
Q30716083 The list of provincial parks in the Canadian province of Ontario contains lists of more than 300 provincial parks in Ontario. These provincial parks are maintained by Ontario Parks. For a list of protected areas in Ontario, see the List of protected areas of Ontario.Northern OntarioList of provincial parks of... |
Q30357 Year 829 (DCCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. |
Q3235260 Dos mujeres, un camino (English title: Two women, one path) is a Mexican neo-noir telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa in 1993-1994. This production was exhibited in 47 countries, had high viewer ratings, and has been described as one of Televisa's most successful telenovelas.Erik Estrada, Laura ... |
Q135796 Shōjo Comic (少女コミック, commonly abbreviated to 少コミ Shōkomi, Sho-Comi or Shōcomi) is a shōjo manga magazine published semimonthly in Japan by Shogakukan since 1968. It was originally published weekly and it continued to be published weekly until the 1980s. Many influential shōjo manga ran in Shōjo Comic during the... |
Q5631812 HMS Cattistock, the third ship of this name, is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1981 and commissioned on 5 March 1982, the third ship of her class. |
Q3498837 The First National Bank Tower is a 634 ft (193 m), 45-story skyscraper at 1601 Dodge Street in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Completed in 2002, it is currently the tallest building in the city of Omaha, and in the state of Nebraska, and has been since its completion, overtaking the 478 ft (146 m), 30-story Woodmen... |
Q4554929 Events from the year 1855 in the United Kingdom. |
Q7254484 Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis is a marine bacterium. |
Q461065 Megumi Fujii (藤井 恵 Fujii Megumi, born April 26, 1974) is a retired Japanese mixed martial artist. |
Q1648088 Live in the Real World is the first live CD and DVD album by Dutch/Mexican progressive metal band Stream of Passion, created by Arjen Anthony Lucassen.It features not only songs from their debut album Embrace the Storm, but also songs from Ayreon, Ambeon and Star One, three other musical projects by Lucassen. |
Q5043265 The Carmel Clay School District is a public school district located in Carmel, Indiana, serving Carmel and Clay Township. The district operates 11 elementary schools (grades K-5), three middle schools (grades 6-8) and one high school, with an overall enrollment of 16,352 in the 2018-2019 school year. The distr... |
Q35663 The Qimant language is a highly endangered language spoken by a small and elderly fraction of the Qemant people in northern Ethiopia, mainly in the Chilga woreda in Semien Gondar Zone between Gondar and Metemma. |
Q747796 Zərdab (also, Zardob and Zardab) is a city in and the capital of the Zardab Rayon of Azerbaijan. |
Q2696915 Charvatce is a village and municipality in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Name Charvatce means Croat and origins from White Croats who founded village. |
Q22025814 The 1983 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their eighth year under head coach Terry Donahue, the Bruins compiled a 7–4–1 record (6–1–1 Pac-10), finished in first place in the... |
Q2617100 Ardakan (Persian: اردكان, also Romanized as Ārdaḵān) is a city in and the capital of Sepidan County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 16,212, in 3,534 families. |
Q15560671 Cassinia compacta is a plant native to eastern Australia. |
Q22285284 Epiphthora achnias is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1904. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are white, irrorated with golden-fuscous and with an oblique bar from the middle of the dorsum reach... |
Q22019524 Frank Eustace Turner (31 July 1886 – 11 June 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Q25205917 The Nishnabotna River Bridge is located southwest of Manilla, Iowa, United States. It carries traffic on 310th Street over the Nishnabotna River. Steel was in short supply during World War II as a part of the war effort. Many bridges built across the state were built in this era with timber, especially smal... |
Q26251389 Peter Karia (born 16 September 1994) is a Kenyan rugby union player. He plays hooker. |
Q160165 Anna Ioannovna (Russian: Анна Иоанновна; 7 February [O.S. 28 January] 1693 – 28 October [O.S. 17 October] 1740), also spelled Anna Ivanovna and sometimes anglicized as Anne, was regent of the duchy of Courland from 1711 until 1730 and then ruled as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740. Much of her administration... |
Q3115937 The Great-West Life Assurance Company (also Great-West Life, French: La Great-West, compagnie d'assurance-vie) is a life insurance company. Its headquarters are in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Its President and CEO is Paul A. Mahon.It is owned by Great-West Lifeco, which also owns London Life Insurance Company, Canada ... |
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